"All you need is Beatles"– a concert with such a symbolic name will be held in Ashgabat on January 14 and will gather several generations of fans and fans of the legendary Liverpool quartet in the capital's Mukam Palace. This is the only band in the whole world that has been honored to have its own international holiday - The World Day of The Beatles is celebrated annually by the planet on January 16.

The European Commission (EC) has officially declared three cities as European capitals of Culture in 2023 - Elefsis (Greece), Timisoara (Romania) and Veszprem (Hungary). The title is awarded according to the results of the annual pan-European competition, which has been held on the initiative of the European Union since 1985, writes Deutsche Welle.

ORIENT has compiled a list of the best films of 2022 that viewers could miss. We tried to collect the best paintings from various popular genres so that everyone could find something interesting for themselves.

ORIENT presents a selection of the main series and films, the online premieres of which fell in the first week of 2023.

Knowledge about the manufacture of ceramic vessels came to Europe from the Caspian region and Siberia, Arkeonews reports with reference to the Institute of Archaeology and Ethnology of the Polish Academy of Sciences.

Honoring the winners of the Gulbab Children's Prize took place on Thursday in Ashgabat at the exhibition center of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Turkmenistan. 66 gifted children from all regions of the country received special diplomas and valuable gifts.

International theater festivals will be held in several cities of Turkey in the spring, theaters from all over the world are invited to take part in them, the Turkish Embassy in Turkmenistan informed ORIENT.

The marble sculptures of the Parthenon will soon return to the Acropolis Museum from the British Museum, where they have been kept since 1802, thus resolving the three-century dispute between Great Britain and Greece, Bloomberg reports.

"Since January 1, 2023, artists of Kyrgyzstan are prohibited from using a phonogram," a representative of the press service of the Ministry of Culture of Kyrgyzstan said, according to the country's journalists.

The musical story about the brave Petya, a cheerful bird, a grumpy, but kind grandfather is known and loved in Moscow, London, Paris, Berlin, New York and other cities. The work was written in 1936 by composer Sergei Prokofiev and since then it has been performed in almost all countries of the world.